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This paper examines how differences in state bankruptcy laws, specifically the amount of the homestead exemption, affect business location decisions. We expand upon the literature by narrowing the geographic scope and focus on the amount of entrepreneurial activity within a few miles of the...
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High levels of net migration to the UK have contributed to growing cultural diversity, and researchers are turning their attention to the long-term effects of diversity on productivity. Yet little is known about these issues. This paper asks: what are the links between the composition of firms'...
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We analyze the role of professional reputation in the transition to entrepreneurial activity when credit is rationed. We study an employee's willingness to allow the market to learn information about talent by choosing more or less informative projects. This choice impacts the employee's...
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entrepreneurship topic, and indicates that these objections have not been confirmed. We verify the existence of both efficient and … transferable models to support entrepreneurship (in response to market failures, to enhance resources, etc.), We take an in …
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We use a representative sample of informal entrepreneurs in Madagascar to add new evidence on the magnitude of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses exhibit a value added 28 percent lower than their male counterparts....
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The aim of the paper is to propose an interpretation of network building and structure in considering the way all types of in-house decisions are organized, i.e. the content of these decisions and their level of application within the network. Indeed, the essence of a network is to be found in...
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opportunities in the entrepreneurship field. Most scholars agree that the opportunity identification process is a central concept … for entrepreneurship, but further research in opportunity exploration, recognition, and exploitation in diverse contexts …, increased research in recent years addresses one of the main basic "why"-questions in entrepreneurship research focusing on the …
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